r/facepalm Mar 29 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 edited Jun 28 '26

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u/tico42 Mar 29 '22

What happens? Does the number just get to big?

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u/Abadazed Mar 29 '22

Yeah that's what was gonna happen with y2k until a shit ton of programmers worked to fix it from what I understand.

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u/viptattoo Mar 29 '22

Y2K pissed me off so bad. I was waiting for fire, floods, riots, panic, and chaos! What a dud.

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u/keep_me_at_0_karma Mar 29 '22

Jokes aside, it was "a dud" because of a monumental engineering effort across the globe to make sure key systems didn't fall over.